CAREERS IN HISTORY

 Career is  a job or profession one takes which he or she is highly trained for either through education and other  means of knowledge acquisition. According to Oxford advanced dictionary, career is  defined as `series of jobs that a person has in a particular area of work`. The study of history provides several  pathways to numerous careers to which one can go in to after  education  or any form of special training  as regards to history. The following are careers  one can go for in history:

1. Historian: Historians are people who study and specializes on certain or chosen area of history.They write or document events for future purposes. They are researchers of history. They are intellectuals who provide judgements, interpretations, and facts regarding history. They help to provide proactive steps / solutions to issues of the present by citing statistics and previous occurrence which is in line with what is at hand.

2. History Educator/Teacher/ Instructor: An educator in history, is someone who is trained or skilled and have the right certification to impact the knowledge of history or historical events  to students irrespective  ages which must be in line with school curriculum in private and public institution of learning, which can be elementary or advanced. They can do this using maps, organizing excursions to historical sites or events to honor an important historical personality,photographs and other illustrative ways like using story format for a quicker understanding.

3. Researcher: A researcher is a person that does an in depth  search,background study and gives detailed results about something or issue. A researcher in history unravel and discovers hidden information and gives data for analysis when needed.

 
4. A Museum curator: One can chose a career in becoming a museum curator. A museum curator is someone that works in a museum, and takes care, understands and can build collections in a museum . He or she can describe or provide historical knowledge of artifacts to people when they visit a museum.He or she keeps records or inventories of what any historical item that comes in or goes out of the museum.

Other career pathways one can be or embark on after education or training are : becoming a business consultant, a lawyer, policy maker an anthropologist,an archeologist a librarian, a writer or proof reader of historical documents.

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